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Wireshark in a TUI

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HN · launched Aug 25, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 39%) · 0 views

Niche: network monitoring and diagnostics tools · 193 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -35% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial A terminal UI is straightforward to build, but performing live packet sniffing, reassembly, and protocol dissection akin to Wireshark requires specialized networking libraries.

What it would actually take: The stack would typically involve Go with Bubbletea/Termbox or Rust with Ratatui, hooking into libpcap (or AF_PACKET/eBPF) for raw packet capture. The hard part is dissecting dozens of network protocols (IP, TCP, TLS, HTTP, DNS) and handling stream reassembly at wire speed, which requires either integrating Wireshark's libwireshark C libraries or using mature packet parsing libraries (e.g., gopacket).

Discussion

7 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: tshark/libwireshark

Concerns raised: skepticism about live capture reliability, whether it actually works as demonstrated

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 163 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #65 of 164 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 263 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Mcpsnoop · hn · 2026-07-03 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • VD · hn · 2026-08-08 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • retro-bridge · github · 2026-09-14 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • SubnetLens · hn · 2026-09-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • OmnySSH · hn · 2026-06-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Tutumaver-float-phone · github · 2026-11-07 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • MultiPath · github · 2026-10-12 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • WAHA-TUI · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41

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